Ilona Eibenschütz
Ilona Eibenschütz ( born May 8, 1872 in Pest ( later Budapest), † May 21 1967 in London) was a pianist.
Life
She was the ninth child of her parents. Her father was a merchant. Her siblings included the singer Riza Eibenschütz. At the age of four and a half years, she took piano lessons, first by her cousin, the musician Albert Maria Eibenschütz and then at the Pest pianist Carl Marek. In 1878 she received an imperial scholarship to continue her education at Hans Schmitt at the Vienna Conservatory. In Vienna, she also made her first appearance in public. She began as a child and should have performed together with Franz Liszt in a duet. At age nine, she played the Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466 by Mozart with the Vienna Philharmonic. From 1881 they toured through German cities. She had appearances in France and in front of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1883 she undertook a tour of the major cities in Scandinavia, in which she also appeared before the Danish queen. In October 1883 she went on a tour of Eastern Europe, played on October 17th and 19th in Riga and entered on December 21, before the Russian Imperial family on. At the age of twelve, she completed her education in Vienna, and from 1886 initially put a concert pause. From 1886 to the end of 1889, she studied in Frankfurt am Main at the Hoch Conservatory in piano with Clara Schumann and counterpoint with Iwan Knorr. Towards the beginning of her studies, she learned there also the composer Johannes Brahms know. From 1889 Eibenschütz concert tours through Germany, Austria and Holland began again to take. The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54 by Robert Schumann played it for the first time on November 7, 1890 in Berlin and again in Utrecht. On January 12, 1891, she was the first time a concert in London at the Monday popular concerts in the St. James's Hall, where they Schumann's Études, Op 13 Symphoniques recited.
In 1902 she married the Frankfurt am Main dating, London-based stockbroker Carl Their Castle (d. 1927) and retired soon afterwards largely out of the public concerts back. In 1902 and 1903 they made recordings of works by Brahms and Domenico Scarlatti. 1910, she played at a concert of the Classical Concert Society and entered 1913 with the Rosé Quartet. Your memory of Brahms documented in 1926 in an essay and 1952 in a radio speech to the BBC, during which they also played some piano pieces. In 1952 she also appeared publicly again and played with the Amadeus Quartet Piano Quintet by Brahms.
Writings
- My Recollections of Brahms, in: The Musical Times, 1926, pp. 598 f Reminiscences of Brahms, BBC radio broadcast on October 30, 1952